John Hurt Quotes

I'd love to claim that what I have done in my life is of my doing, but it's not of my doing at all. I've blown around in the wind like a mad thing, influenced by this and that - like a piece of paper: like the boy in that scene in 'American Beauty' watching a piece of paper blowing hither and thither.

John Hurt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: January 22, 1940 - January 25, 2017

Topics

LifeLoveBeautyWindAmericanMad

You get out of life what you put into it. I think you need a bit of luck but you also make a bit of luck. I think that if you're a pretty decent person you'll get back what you put in.

John Key

LifeLuckThinkYouBackPerson

Even a poor man can receive honors.

Sophocles

ManPoorPoor ManEvenHonors

Our new world rests on order. The danger is disorder. And in today's world, it can now spread like contagion.

Tony Blair

TodayWorldNewNowOrderSpread

Don't always be so reasonable and practical and sensible that you refuse to seize glorious opportunities when they show up and push the envelope as to what's possible for you.

Robin S. Sharma

OpportunitiesPushYouPossibleUp

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

Mike Royko

ComputersInternetViewInformation

Now is the time for all good men to run like hell.

Craig Bruce

GoodTimeMenHellNowRun

I feel really lucky. My fans are incredibly loyal. They encourage me to keep going. I feel more torn, trying to fulfill what my kids need. It's really huge. They're doing so well.

Corin Tucker

Keep GoingMeFeelDoingTrying

Sometimes shows get into their 5th and 6th season and you're like, where can you go? But 'Dexter' is still so strong, it's really refreshing.

Brea Grant

StrongYouGoSometimesRefreshing

The one thing I've learned, getting out to all those foreign and domestic locales, is that people in every country of the 'civilized' world wish - either secretly or openly - that they had the expressiveness, the flair, the I'm-so-glad-to-be-me spirit that black folks have made a part of American life.

Wolfman Jack

LifePeopleWorldBlackAmerican

I love the lone human voice. It is my greatest love and passion.

Svetlana Alexievich

LovePassionVoiceHumanGreatest

The soil is not a mass of dead debris, merely resulting from the physical and chemical weathering of rocks; it is a more or less homogeneous system which has resulted from the decomposition of plant and animal remains. It is teeming with life.

Selman Waksman

LifeAnimalPlantRocksSoilDead

Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.

Thucydides

CalmDesireThingsSuccessfulMost

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